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Letter "A" » arrangement
«The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.»
«Nothing makes you feel that you've overstayed your welcome like a flower arrangement that has withered and died.»
«The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.»
Author: Philip Guedalla
(Historian)
| Keywords:
arrangement, divisible, divisible by, dynastic, Henry, Henry James, James, James I, James II, pretender, pretenders, The Pretender
«If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| Keywords:
adjustment, arrange, arrangement, assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, call attention, collective, forcibly, imposition, impositions, ordered, pleasing, remaining, sending, The Practice, tranquil
«What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Capitalism,
Society
| Keywords:
arrangement, capitalism, greed, set up, social organization, social structure, social system, social systems, structured
«The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
alphabetical, arrangement, arranging, geographical, post, post office, The Post Office
«If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Affliction
| Keywords:
affliction, arrangement, clause, contains, The Arrangement
«No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
arrangement, clever, eggs, good egg, omelet, The Arrangement
«Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, compute, computing, computing device, crude, druid, elongated
«It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, satisfies, The Arrangement
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